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A GllAPHI(3 DESCUIPTION OF THE QUANTRELL i 

RAID ON LAWRENCE. J 

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PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF WHAT I SAW AND HEARD' J 

OR LEARNED FROM THOSE DIRECTLY INTERESTED. i 

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By Judge L, U. Bailey in Kansas Culllvator— 1887. ^ 

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f Our last legis'ature passed an act do- j 

1 ing partial justice to the more needy S ^ f 

t sufferers by the "Quantrell Raid" at S ^ Q i 

J Lawrence by making provision for the p' o p J 

I payment to them by installments of j-i k- jr" J 

T ten per cent annually, commencing ^ ^ * t 

January 1890. of some »:>(n,OOU, paying ^j ^' ^ i 

the smaller losses in full some time p ck tr f 

during the century, but paying to those (u o S '^ i 

who lost most largely only ^1,500. "^ V ^' S- 1 

This tardy act of liberality and justice ^ i_j p 5 1 

induces me to relate somewhat at S ?3 _ i 

length what I know of that most atro- ^ ^ S, 1 

cious and bloody tragedy and, of which ^ § ^ -^ 1 

I was an eye witness. • , ' 2 "^ t» ^ 1 

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WHO WAS Quantrell? == 2 ^' ^. f 

This question will doubtless arise in ^ p' "* pi 

many minds, and I may as well answer 35 ri- ^ f 

it in the beginning. § q ^ I 



William C. Quantrell was born in a " ^ J 

small town in Ohio called Canal Dover, a a i 

and came to Kansas as early as 1859, '^ "^ ^ 

but for some reason took the name of p gs ; 

Chas. Hart. His first employment was p^ cu f 

that of a school teacher at or near Pa- 4 

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_T came to Lawrence, where he assumed to be a radical 

•>vT abolitionist and kept company with a number of young 

;^ men in that vicinity of the most extreme viewa, and 

T somewhat reckless character, 

T o ^^ Ho openly declared himself ready to 

\ ig •;::; assist any slave iu Missouri to es- 

i ^ ^ cape from bis master, and to defend all 

T fl '^ ^^^^^ '^^ ^^'^ escaped, by force of arms 

I _o o '^^^^ ^° ^^® 1^^^ extremity. It soon 

I '^1 "5 came to be understood that he and his 

T ^ tw associates were iu the habit of riding 

I ui o over the line into Missouri and helping 

t ^ ^ away any discontented slaves they 

T '^ B chanced to meet with, and it was fur- 

! ^ ^ ther learned that these discontented 

I rS '^ slaves were advised and encouraged to 

T "Je "^ ^ help themselves to such mules and 

J Q^ .S ^ horses or other property of their mas- 

t "5 Pi -S ^^^^ ^3 ^^6y cou'd conveniently get 

T 5,_| J5 ^ away with. 

T ^ ^ James E. Stewart. 

T -^ fl rH A Methodist preacher, named James 

T .2 o ^ E. Stewart, an Englishman by birth, 

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T . q; '^ friend and confidant of Quantrell, alias 

^ S _^ Charley Hart, and Stewart's farm or 

i n^ '^ claim, a few miles south of Lawrence, 

t Ti became a well known rendezvous of 

T ^ § the fugitive slaves, who either on their 

own motion or by the assistance or per- 
suasion of Hart and his company, sue- \ 
ceeded in effecting their escape from i 
Missouri into Kansas. As it was only f 
forty miles to the line which divided i 
^ the slave state of Missouri from the i 



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QUANTKELL EUNNING OFF SLAVES BeKOKE THE WaU. 

free territory of Kansas it Wris eas-y for these young men, 
most of whom Wf^rn bold riders f nd experts in the use 
of arms, to pass over the line, meet wiih slaves, then 

explain to them how thort a run 
they had to malie to gain their free- 
dom, and give them fuU directions 
how to reach a safe hiding place at the 
Stewart farm. In the heavy timber 
that lined the banks of the VVakarusa 
near the farm there was a snug little 
cabin provided, and friends were al- 
ways ready to guide the way and to 
furnish provisions and other necessar- 
ies to the trembling fugitives, who 
were told that they would be kept 
there in safety until they could be sent 
on through ]S'ebrasKa and Iowa to Chi- 
cago and thence to Canada. That was 
the program, and Stewart's farm was 
represented in fact to be the main de 
pot for the Kansas branch of the fa- 
mous underground railroad of which a 
good many Quakers and nearly all Ab- 
olitionists were the agents and cen- 
diictors, as all will understand who 
have read the story of Uncle Tom"s 
Cabin. 

But things are not always what they 
seem, and Charley Hart was not by 
any means the zealous, self sacriticing 
friend of the fugitive and of freedom 
that he seemed and pretended to be. 
In fact, it was eventually found out 
that while he and his friends were in- 





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did actively domg his best to help their mascers to 
catch them and take them back. But this was a matter 
of business and only done for cash. Of course his associ- 
ates vveie the most of th.,'m ignorant of this black hearted 

scheme of treachery 
but it is known that several victims 
were in this way foully betrayed and 
taken back to slavery, leaving of course 
any horses or mules they may have 
brought with them as the prey of the 
false friend who bad first helped and 
then betrayed them. It is believed 
ttjat in this way Hart managed to do 
quite a smart business in mules aud 
horses, but at last suspicion was arous- 
ed and he was 

Chased out of Lawrence 
by an othcer who had a warrant for 
his arrest on the charge of horse steal- 
ing. He never returned till he came 
back on the morning of August 21, 18- 
63, at the head af about 300 horsemen, 
well mounted, completely armed, and 
intent on wreaking vengance upon the 
abolitinn town which had made itself 
famous the world over for its sturdy 
defense of freedom, but was held in 
most unutterable abhorrence all over 
Missouri for the same reason 

I went down to Lawreuce from To- 
peka on August 20, the day before the 
raid, and became a guest of the Eld- 
redge house at midnight, only to find 
myself a prisoner in the power of 
Quantrell and his gang before tt^e next 
^ cf-i ■=■ morning dawned. Being a prisoner 
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his ga g held po-isrjstion of the town, I could not s^e nor 
hear all that might have been seen or heard under more 
lavorable ciicumstances. 

The Eldridge House. 



The Eldridge House itself is an his- 
toric landmark, for on the sjot where 
it now stands was eiected the first 
really good hotel in Kausus. It was 
built of stone, was three stories high 
with basement, and was more general- 
ly known while it stood as the Free 
State Hotel, having been built by the 
New England Emigrant Aid Company, 
as the central deput fur the numerous 
emigrants they designed to send to the 
new territory. It was leased and fur- 
nished by Col. S. W. Eldridge, who had 
kept the American House at Kansas 
City for a short time, but before he 
could open the house in Lawrence in 
proper form it was indie! ed as a nui- 
sance by the pro slavery giand jury, 
and destroyed by a posse of several 
hundred men from Missouri, acting as 
Kansas Militia, and with no less a per- 
son for leader than David R. Atchison, 
for many years United States Senator 
from Missouri, and then president pro 
tern, nf the senate and acting vice pres- 
ident of the United States. He fired 
the first shot at the ill iated building 
from a cannon plai ted directly across 
the street, but owing to a too free in- 
dulgerce in his favorite beverage, the 
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vine some quaiter of a mile distant; other shots, better 
aimed, hit the house, but failed to make a very great im- 
I)ies3ion on it-! Solid walls. Whereupon, kegs of powder 
Wire placed in the basement and exploded, with 

^ only partial success as to injuring the 

buildijg, and so rtsort was finally had 

Destroykd First, May 21, 1856. 

to the torch, a Ht tool for such incendi- 
ary purpose, and the Free 8tate Hotel 
"nuisance" was abated, together with 
two print ng presses, Gov. Robinson's 
house and other buildings. Col. Eld- 
ridge had just procured a year's stock 
of provisions and a large amount of 
furniture for the house, not a dollar's 
worth of which was saved. This was 
Eldridge House No. 1, but wasf not the 
house 1 lodged in August 20-21, 1863, 
though it had stood upon the same 
ground. Eldridge House No. 2 was 
erected by the same Col. Eldridge in 
the spring of "57, was of brick, 100 feet 
long, by four stories in height, and un- 
doubtedly, at the time it was complet- 
ed, the best hotel west of St. Louis, al- 
so the best furnished and the best kept. 
It was in this that 1 found myself a 
prisoner at early dawn on the morning 
of August 21, 1863, and this was set on 
fire before I left it that morning. I 
might as well say now, though a little 
in advance of the narrative, that this 
in turn was replaced by Eldridge 
- House No. 3, which still stands as a 





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moriunien-. io the p.uck and perseverance of Col. Eld- 
rid^eaudai honor to the town w hie 'i ic laigely helped 
10 build, and wliich in turn contributed ten liioi.sand 
dollars to rebuiU it in its third form. It was in the first 
Eldiidge House thai John fehernaau, William A. Howard 

and Mordecai Oliver 
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1856 to Inquire and report about the do 
injjs of the border ruflians up to that 
time, held their sessions while in Law- 
rence, and there they took the mass of 
testimcny which aroused the country 
and estfiblished the Republican party, 
and they had barely left ic when it was 
destroyed, May 21, 1856. So much for 
the three Eldiidge houses. 
Bailey Gotcs Dow^n to Lawkence 

FROM TOPEKA AUG. 20TII. 

As I have said, I reached Lawrence 
from Topeka and going to bed late had 
slept soundly. I heard the firing, but 
had heard similar sounds on the morn- 
ing of the 4th. of July, and thought no 
more about it. The hotel gong rang 
loudly through the hall.-;, but 1 thought 
it was an early call to breakfast. At 
last a louder volley, or perhaps the yells 
of the rebel gang as they dashed along 
the streets, aroused mw v nough so that 
1 got up from my bed ^■nd looked out 
of the back window cverlookicg the 
yard to the west of the hotel. I only 
saw one person, a col' red man who 
had been a waiter. Seeing that he 
looked frightened and acted as if about 
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"Why, de Quantrell is here," he answered. And to con- 
Hrm the news, he added "Day is, sartin sure, and dey's 
killed Addison and dey's shot Joe Eldridge twice." 

Addison meant Addison VVangh, a cl^rk in Griswold'a 
drug store in the Eldridge House basement story, an^ 

Joe Eldridge was a half witted young 
man who staid there — a relative or Col. 
Eldredge. 

My doubts were vanquished by this 
time, as I covild hear sounds on every 
hand, too plainly showing that the 
blow had fallen which had been looked 
for a year or two before, but had ceas- 
ed to be feared, because the war clouds 
had passed olf to the South — so it was 
thought. 

IJailey saves his .^-100. 

I hastened to dress myself, and was 
about to put my watch in my pocket, 
when it occurred to me that the gold 
chain would attract attention and in- 
sure its loss. I thought a moment and 
then shoved it into the stove, which 
was partially tilled with ashes and car- 
pet sweepings. Then it occurred to 
me that I had about $400.00 in my 
pocket-book, and I knew that would 
have to go. After a moment's hesita- 
tion I shoved the pocket-book into the 
stove with the watch, first taking out 
three small bills and putting them in a 
wallet or porte-monnaie, which I usual- 
ly carried in the pocket of my panta- 
loons. I had left my boots outside the 
door to be polished, but found that 
they had been removed, and so I was 
forced to go down stairs barefooted. 



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my room was at the top. 

The two upper tloors were alike occupied as lodging 
rooms, with a large hall north and south, the whole 
length of each. The oH ce was on the second floor, while 

the first was uped for 
stores. I went down one flight of 
stairs and found the hall of the third 
floor crowded with the guests of the 
house, eighty or perhaps a hundred in 
number, men, women and a few child- 
ren I was making my way slowly 
through the crowd to the stairwa^-, 
when some ona touched me on the 
shoulder, with the peremptory words: 
"Your money!" It was a man in gray, 
with a revolver in his hand. I put my 
hand in my pocket and drew out my 
wallet, handing it over to him with the 
remark that there was not much in it, 
but I should need a breakfast bye and 
bye, and would thank him to leave me 
fifty cents to pay for breakfast. 

Eldridge House Incidents. 

The fellow gave me a sharp look, 
opened the wallet, pitched out the 
three small bills I had "salted" it with, 
and handed it back to me open, with 
the small change in it. I had plenty of 
time just then, so proceeded to deliber- 
ately smooth out the postal currency 
that then composed our small change- 
found there was eighty cents in it, and 
remarked to the man that he had left 
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ed for. "Thank you," he added. lie smiled faintly at my ^ 

gratitude, and 1 passtd on to the head of the stairs, I 

where I met the redoubtable QuantreU himself, He was i 

fatanding on the stairs— the second from the top I think f 

—was about five feet nine inches in height, had i 

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•n-» „ 0) 'S open at the breast, with low-crowned I 

f "^ o "^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^°^ * yellow or gold cord i 

j ^ rt ^ around it for a band. He had a revol- ^ 

i p p^ cs f^ ^^^ *° ^*^ hand and another in his belt, * 

T '^ b rr 'P but did not look more formidable or i 

? 0) O S ? ferocious than many a man 1 have met • 

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I S ri -H — ' ^ I should not have known him to be the J 

T a> I ^ f-' dreaded QuantreU but for the fact f 

I -ig ^ > ^ that a youngish man, whose namb I i 

T CM ^ ? ^ § think was Spicer, was leaning over the J 

I ® ^ 3 fi § banister talking to him QuantreU had I 

T ^ ^ '^ '^ formerly lived nearly a year in Law- i 

T '-S I 3 ^ p rence and had gone by the name of J 

^ -S a; r- ^ ^ Charley Hart, and Mr. Spicer was try- f 

I ^ ^ ^ r^ a ^^S to call to his mind some occasion 1 

T A S ;S ^ ill which they had been together. "We J 

f ce '^ S 3 called you Charley Hare then, you J 

T ^ «3 ^ p^ know," SDicer said, to which he replied i 

T .2 o . j^ that "It makes no difference what they i 

^ g r^ Q ^ call me"— and he did not seem to warm f 

T i_^ ^ g Qj up at the recital of the old time affair, A 

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Charley Ilart at Lawrence, and that he bad assumed the 
charactbi- of a violent abolitionist. While Quantrell thus 
guarded the stairs to urevcnt any from passing down, his 
men were passing throu'<h tl;e cro vded hall, and taking 
all the cash and valuables they could 

lay hands on. No violence was U'^ed 
and no loud or boisterous talk was in- 
dulged in. 1 mingled with the crowd, 
many of whom were old friends, and 
learned that the Eldridge House had 
been formally surrendered before I 
was awake. 

Kobert 8. Stevens, a lawyer, formeily 
a partner with Gov. Shannon at Le- 
compton, had come in the night before 
and iiad been acquainted with Quan- 
trell, I think, in his legal character, 
perhaps in assisting out of some scrape. 
I was also told that he was a Mason 
and k[iew Quanti'ell to be one, and 
that he made use of Masonic signs to 
attract attention; but Alexander S. 
Banks, United States provost marshal, 
was also a guest at the house and took 
part in negutiating the terms of surren 
der, which were merely an agreement 
that all lives should be spared if the 
house was surrendered without resist- 
ance. A white sheet had been hung 
out of an upper window as a Hag of 
truce, in the first place, and it was 
supposed that the outlaws were in 
some fear that the house would be held 
strongly against them, and might oc 
casion them a loss of time. 



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Mrs. Hiram; Beeman Saves Her Jewelry, I 

Among other gueots at the houee was Mrs. JJeeman, of i 
Top ka, wh )se husband, Hiram Beeman was then an J 
otlicer iu the army, and has since served f 

^ ^ '^ 0" ^3 county treasurer at Topeka. She ^ 

J ^CO ^ knew me by sight at least, and { 

, -^ came to me with her httle daughter to 

•S o ce ask that 1 would assist her to get a 

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<X) Are and burnt. I did not believe this, 

C ':^ &l] 5 ^'^^ ^^ '^ means of quieting her fears, I 

^ rS 0) cp cjil went directly to Qimntrell and asked if 

■^ fl ^ rC „ it was so. He answered me civilly 

J 2 ^ "^ enough: "Yes, it will be burnt." I 

^ '"^ . S^ ventured a few words of remonstrance^ 

^ o g 3 o but got no other reply than: "Yes, it 

^ ilT ^ ® is pretty rough, but wo have had our 

.§ '^ (V '^ ^ bouses burnt, and we will burn, also." 

00^2 I then went with Mrs. Beraan and 

>• '^ .S ^ helped her to get at her valuables 

3 ^ ^ '^ which she secured about her person. 
^ ^ B Three men had come in by stage the 

^ ^ day before and were occupying a room 

g g in the north wing, and they kept their 

. o '^ -^ '*^ ^^°^ locked. At last some of the out- 

T fCi "^ ^ Q laws went to open it and finding they 

I ^ ^ ^ .S could not, fired several shots through 

T !3 fS a; '^ the door, one of the bullets striking 

? ^ a; "^^ one of the men in the hip. The door 

} CC rt ^ ^ was opened at once and the three men 

! S ^ W came out and were robbed like the rest 

I of us. The wounded man wore a pair of 
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white pants and 1 taw thf blood trickling down his thigh 
and staining his clean white pantaltons a vivid red- 
That was the only blood I saw wh le 1 reniain»d a prison- 
er, and I had but little idea of the extent of the slaughter 
outs de I could 1 ear the report of Hre 

arms and the loud yells from the guer- 
rilla horsemen as they dashed along the 
street, but I failed to realize the demon 
like atrocities that were being perpe- 
trated upon the unarmed and defence- 
less people of the town who were so 
u ifortunate as to fall into their hands, 
rhese I was to learn later in the d ty. 
All this t.me I was stalking about the 
hall in my stocking feet, and of coiirse 
feeling awkward and ill at ease, and 
my watch and pocketbook with its 
somewhat valuable contents, were 
quietly reposing in the stove where I 
had placed them. Now finding that 
the house and all its contents was to be 
set on fire, I thought it about time to 
"remove the deposits," to use a phrase 
somewhat famous in the time of An- 
drew Jackson, and so I stole up stairs 
to the room I had occupied the night 
before and regained possession of 
them. But I was careful to exhibit 
neither watch nor pocketbook, for al- 
though I had been robbed once I was 
by no means sure that 1 would not be 
robbed again and perfectly sure that I 
would be if I was known to have val- 
uables about my person. 



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Major F. B. Banchoft. 

Major F. B. Jiaucroft of the 8th. Kansas had served at 
the t-iege of Vicksburg, and having been taken &ick 
was sent home on furlough to either get 



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ance of chances lor the latter. He was 
from Emporia where 1 had been well 
acquainted with him and his wife for 
years. His wife had been boarding at 
I he Kldridge House and it was there 
the Major came and it was there that 
his bruther came to take him home. 
Mrs. Bancroft had been too busy in ac- 
teuaing to her sick husband to give 
much attendance to her dress that 
morning, but clad in a loose robe of the 
Mother Hubbard style, was watching 
over the sick husband with untiring as- 
siduity, fearing doubtless that the ex- 
citement of such a scene might be fatal 
to one who seemed already to have but 
a feeble hold on life. I concluded that 
if any person escaped without further 
search, that she would, and so asked 
her if she had any spare pocket room 
about her dress. "Plenty," she answer- 
ed heartily, and my precious gold walch 
fouad safe repuse in the innermost re- 
cesses of the Mother Hubbard dresa. 
As for the pocket book and contents, I 
decided to run the risk of keeping it 
about me, and I have them both, valu- 
able keepsakes to this day. 1 write 
this hasty narrative on the eve of Aug- 
ust 20, and my readers will many of 



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\h( m read it on the 24th. anniversary of the memorable 
"Black Friday" of the Quantrell raid. And yet it seems 
but as yesterday, $o swiftly does time glide on. 

At length we were ordered to march out of the house 
whic'i had alnady been Sft on fue. Mnjor Bancroft, be- 



ing too sick to walk, Ids brother and 
myself carried him in the large uphol- 
stered chair he sat in, down the steps 
of thp hotel into the street. To my 
knowledge he had not spoken a word 
that morning. Nor had he raised his 
head to see what was going on around 
him, but as we were carrying him 
down the long flight of steps h« opened 
his eyes and saw a horseman mounted 
on a fine horse trailing a large Ameri- 
can flag behind htm by a long rope at- 

Traii,ing the Flag in the Dust. 

tached ti his horse's cruj'per, while a 
multitude of other men had each a 
small American flag flying at his hors- 
es' tail. These small flags had been 
plundered from Wilmarth's book store 
in the Eldridge House basement, and 
the large one, which was very large, 
had been cut from a tall flag-staff, or 
liberty pole, erected at the north end of 
main street (Massachusetts street) in 
honor of the Fourth of Ju'y, and had 
been allowed to remain ever since. 

My own attention had been occu- 
pied with the spectacle of the burning 
town — the whole street being a blaze — 
and 1 was especially interested in gaz- 
ing on the newspaper cftices, of which 



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The Two Newspaper Offices. 

there were two, viz: the Lawrence Republican, owned by 
T. D Thicher our late state printer, and the Kansas 
iribune, owned by John Speer, at present one of the 
b )ard of County Comm ssioners of Finney county. 

]}oth were on tire with every other 
building along the street, and I was 
gazing at them sadly when I was arous 
ed by a deep lierce growl from Major 
Bancroft, who could see nothing but 
the desecration of the American flag, 
as the man on the tall horse was drag- 
ging it through the dust, putting his 
horse through various turns, jumps 
and caricoles to make the old flag 
jump and loU by turns fifty feet be- 
hina his horse, in the deep dust. The 
Major's exclamation was: "There 
they are, dragging the American liag 
in the dust! G— d d— n 'em!" and the 
great tears, which nothing else could 
excite, rolled down his wan cheeks as 
he witnessed the profanation of the 
sacred emblem he had been taught to 
revere. 1 never felt so deeply before 
how sacred that emblem was in the 
eyes of a true soldier. 

Capt- Nathan Stone. 

We carried him across the street and 
went with the rest of the prisoners 
north-easterly in the direction of anoth 
er hotel on the river bank, originally 
called the Whitney House, then called 
the City Hotel and since better known 
as the Dufree House. This house was 



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heartHcl man, who had boarded (inaatrt'll— alias Charley 
Hirt — while he stayed in Lawrence, and whose family 
had nuisel him thrtxigli a t 'nii of sickness. While we 
were being dr.v n like a Hock of stieep 

towards Ibis house, Quantre 1 himself 
made his appearance, riding along on 
our lefr, and Grilling out at the top »f 
his voiiv, 'Years ago old mm Stone 
treated me witli kindness, and Til be 
d — 1 to h — 1 if a h iir of tiis head shall 
b-i i ijured." Anl we were all safely 
lodged m Captiin Stont's hotel. 

Whether we were entir>ly safe in 
our new quarters we were n )t at all 
positive, but we thought so from what 
Quan rell had said of his obligation to 
Captaii Stone, and the determination 
that not a hair of his head sh )uld be 
injured. Andb^sdHS, as yet we knew 
n)thing of the terrible wok of death 
lliat h;id all the morning bet-n going on 
all around us in the devoted cicy. We 
knew ih it the c.ty was in tiam-s for 
we could see it with our ovvn eyes, how 
the best buildings — and, in fact, all the 
buildings that would burn were rapidly 
yielding and turning to ashes before 
the dtvonring element, but we had 
seen no murder. We thought that ou - 
lawry would be c mtent with the plun- 
der and destruction of the town, and 
little dreamed that its streets and lanes 
and vacant squares were at that very 
momf^nt thickly strewn with corpses, 
and that many of the dead were being 
consumed in the burning buildings. 
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Prisoners at the City Hotel. 

We had been kept close prisoners, and still were so, for 
tlier- were smtries j Jaced in Ircini of the City Hotel 
to keep us from l^-avi g it. Thei^e sentries called lor some- 
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<X) o S '^ ^"^ h'*^^ nothing to do but to wait and 

0) _, R ^ "^ watch. 1 remember that for my own 

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i=l }i 'C -^ part I found some comfort in the fact 

r^ ^ ^^ '^ r-i 

J^ ''"^ ^ g^ -S that 1 had saved a pipe and some to- 
^ ^ S J:::) -^ bacco about my person, and that hav- 

1 i^ r;-; ^ rS i»g divided my tobacco with my old 
^ ^ 5^ ;^ c^ friend, Hugh S. Walsh, for some jears 

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j-j ^ ?H „ rH secretary of the territory and several 

■^ Ph I— I ^ '^ times acting governor when the appoint 

^ ■ c^ ^ '^ ed governors removed, resigned or 

O) GO § Jo were absent from the territory, we seat 

*^ H-^ _^ J^ '^ ed ourselves in the bar-room and pro- 

j^ ■ „ ^ cfH ceededto enjoy a protracted smoke, 

^ 5 op r5 ^ discoursing in the meantime upon the 

P y^ ^ <^ -2^ sudden blow that had fallen, like a 

^ -S " li^ ^ thunderbolt from a clear sky. Govern- 

g ^ g S ^ or Walsh, as we culled him, was a vet- 

S ^ ^ ^ "o eran Democrat, born in Delaware Co., 

aj "^ 2 2 New York, but had spent many years 

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'^ HH . -^ rS Joy-'l iiian duricg the war, he of course 

.S P^ ."S ^ ^ had some little sympathy for the peo- 

d . '^ O <p pie he had lived among so long and 

g 'o tl ^ !>, with whom, politically, he had always 

o S ol '^ ^ acted. He spoke of this raid upon 

'^ ffl gn gn ^ Lawrence as having been provoked 

^ j^ O) &^ ■^ ^"^ brought on by depredations of the 

'o . ^ a; c3 abolitionists called "red legs," who had 

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qu irters while enticing negroes to run away from their 
masters and steal their htirses or mules— some! imts 
wa?on and other sfood^, as the best means of g^'ttino: 
away, lie rlso spoke of the atiocinus doings of ^ome[of 
the Kansas troops in t'le border counties 

of Missouri, and i>articularly of the 
robbin;^ and burning of the town of 

Lane's Soldieiis Bui:n Osckola, Mo 

OsceolH, a town as large as Lawrence, 
ht the head of the stt^am-boat naviga- 
tion on the Osage River which had 
been recently captured by Lane's brig- 
ade. We could not agree on these mat- 
ters, and meanwhile the sun shone so 
hot in the east door where we were sit- 
ting, that we adjourned to the dining 
room, which occupied the north side of 
the house and was cool. That morn- 
ing, by thi^way, was one of the very 
hottest 1 remember to have seen in 
Kansas, yet I may as well remark here 
in passing that four d;iys af cerward we 
had a severe frost Tuesday, August 25. 
which killed some crops on low land, 
and extending to liliuitis, Iowa, Indi- 
ana and Wisconsin, did great damage. 
Walsh and I continued the discus- 
sion for some time, until our attention 
was roused by the tramp of horses on 
the south front of the hotel, and loud 
voices, ciUing on everybody in the 
house lo come out. The language they 
used was coarse and rrtfianly, such as 
drunken men are accustomed to use, 
and run in this wis : "Here, you G— d 



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d— sons of b— chs, come out here! Come right out 
here, all of you I" There were probably not far from one 
hundred of us in the hi")use at that time, and those in 
the front rooms went out on tlie piizx I as fast as th^y 
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I did not go, because there was no 
chance to get through the crowd for 
one reason, and because I did not like 
to accept the terms of the invitation 
for another. I did not like the implied 
insult to my mother. The next mom- 

GuEKP.iLLAs Shooting Prisoneus. 

ent I heard the crack of revolvers, and 
the screams of frightened women who 
came rushing back to where I was, 
crying out, "They are shooting the 
prisoners." I did not wait for further 
pariiculars, but raised one of the north 
windows of the dining room which 
opened out upon the bank of the Kaw 
river, and got out, first helping out two 
or three ladies, one of whom I think 
was Mrs. Benian and her little girl, and 
the others I have forgotten. They 
each had a small bundle of valuables, 
which I assisted them to hide as we 
clambered down the steep bank in 
sight of the ferry landing. There was 
no bridge across the Kansas river at 
that time from its mouth to its source, 
though one was commenced at Law- 
rence on the spot where it still stands, 
after sundry disasters and changes. I 
could see the ferry boat on the north 
side of the riyer, and a crowd of thirty 



or forty people about it. I calUd at the top of my voice 
for them to come over and take us across, assuring them 
that there was no danger, and the boat soon came aid 
took us over. 

BAILEY ESCAPES ACROSS THE I>:AW. 



I fuuiid on landinsf from the ferry 
boat that there were sume dozen sol- 
diers in uniform, well armed of course-, 
and as many Delaware Indians wiih 
thtir rifles, besides a mi^jceilaueous 
crowd of citizens, or pqualters, who be- 
longed on that side of the river. They 
had been there all the morning but had 
not dared to crohs, not knowing the 
force of the enemy, but had used their 
rifles to good purpose by shooting 
across at any rebel horsemen they 
could see within range. They had kill- 
ed one man who was helping to cut 
down the big flag I spoke of. 

They were entirely ignorant of the 
situation of affairs on the south side, 
except what they cuuld see and hear — 
the flames aLd smoke, the filing and 
the yells and shrieks 1 explained to 
them briefly what I knew, and told 
theoQ 1 thought the main body of the 
outlaws had left town, but a few strag- 
glers remaind who were drunk and dev- 
ilish. Telling them of what had just 
happened at the hotel, they took my 
view of the case, and all who had arms 
got into the boat and crossed the river 
at once. They were met on the other 
side by Captain Frank IJ. Swift, who 



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Capt. FlIANK B. swift AND FORCES. 

had served a term in the First Kansas, and he marched 
them up into the city just in time to see the last of the 
stragglers ride olf at full gallop to rejuin the main body. 

For myself, still in my 
stocking feet, I wandered off on the 
Leiven worth road till I came to a new 
house in the woods, about where the 
railroad now stands, belonging to Col. 
Garrett, and there I got a good break- 
fast and a pair of old shoes. After this 
I went back to the ferry house, where 
I found a large crowd of fugitives from 
the burned city, and was shocked to 
see Captain Stone mortally wounded 
lying on a bed, and learned that he had 
been shot down on the piaza of the ho- 
tel at the moment I made my escape 
from it. He died that same day or the 
next, he was a good and brave man 
and had refused to have a white flag 
displayed from his house that morning, 
declaring that he would rather take 
his chance. As I stated, Quantrell had 
stated that "Not a hair of his head 
should be injured," but the men who 
murdered him were stragglers, not at 
that time under Quantrell's control. 

Capt. STONE FINALLY SHOT. 

It afterwards came out that he was 
killed on purpose as a special act of re- 
venge by a man who had stayed behind 
when his companions of the main body 
■i^ 'o S3 "^^^ ^^ fulfill a threat he made to the 
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two before. "And thereby hangj a tale'" as the story books 
sav — the tile of aiing. 

It seems that when Qnantrell boarded with Stone and 
was sici< Ht the house, Miss Lydia Stone waited ou him 
during his sickness, and in return lor 



her kindness he gave her a diamond 
ring of considerable value, and as if 
foreseeing the stormy times to come, 
he charged her to keep it in token of 
his friendship, ihrougn life. That ring 
she wore on her finger that fateful 
morning, and when it was seen by one 
of the villains who robbed the guests of 
the house, he demanded that also. She 
valued the ring highly— as most young 
ladies are apt to value diamond rings— 
and told the rufili^n liow she came by 
it. It made no difference to him, he 
said, who she got it frt>m; ''Ilaud it 
over, quick!" And she did, but no- 
ticed his dress and afterward sent for 
Quantrell and told him of her loss, de- 
scribing the man who took her ring. 

Miss Lydia Stone's Ring. 

Quantrell swore it should be returned, 
and soon the same rutlian who took it 
came back and returned it, acting very 
sulkily and mutteiing as she took it 
from his hand, that she would be "d — d 
sorry for it!" And for this he planned 
and executed the brutal murder of her 
father, as I have described. But one 
other man was shot down in that 
charge— a peddler, 3 believe, and I 
think he recovered. 1 heard this story 






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of the ring at the time, but gave little credaace to i t i 

considering it a romantic invention. But in 1881, ^ 

eighteen years afterward , I saw this same lady then, I 

Mrs. Kiosbury, wife of the public printer of Dakota I 

Territory, living at Yanfeton, but on a visit to friends i 

at Lawrence, and had the story from I 

her own lips nearly as I have related it. i 

At the ferry laudirxg on the nortti J 

side of the Kaw river 1 found most of ^ 

the people who had t-een in the Eld- i 

redge House and afterwards in the f 

City Hotel with me; but they knew no A 

o more of the situation than 1 did. One i 

^ Mrs- Fkazier ; 

a; lady, Mrs. Frazier, v. hose husband, a I 

^ ra I Jeweler, was on a busiaess trip to the i 

^ ^^ ' Indian Territory, or the military camp ; 

r^ cs § ^ there, was extremely nxious about her • 

*S ;£ 1=1 p^ brother, James PeDi.ie, who was a i 

Ph <1 << <1 drug clerk in the lar s store of Eld- \ 

^ redge & Ford. I trie J to assure her of ^ 

^ his safety and prua.i:,ed to send her i 

word to that effect a!^ loon as possible, f 

1 I then crossed over by ferry to the ^ 
•43 south side, little drearmng of the horri- t 
S ble spectacle 1 was lu encounter. At ; 
^^ the north end of Main St., (Massachu- I 

I J seits St.) I passed a blacksmith shop i 

T ^ . where the blacksmith laid dead on the i 

IH-j ^ floor. Thisshop and a few morebuild- I 

^ p I ings near it had escaped burning, be- i 

0-1 cause it was so near the river, there i 

T m ® "^" ^^^ danger of being shot by the J 

I '^ •;::3 be riflemen on the north bank. As I t 

T ^ !^ ^ have explained, the county building ^ 

T was in ashes and several of the county f 

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officers had been killed, among them Captain G. W 
Bell, the county clerk. Dirtcily in the i ear of the 
county building ilieie had been a bo k bindt-ry and a 
m^n lay with his feet Oil the sidewa k aid his head 
burnt off. Opio.ite a-^io s the street, loomed up the 

Bailey's Houses black- 

ened walls of the Eldredge Hi.use, but 
the stable in the rear of it had escaped 
lurLiog. It was in that stable 1 had 
left my horses and bug^y tlie nighl be- 
fore, and as th<^y were borrowed for 
the trip 1 was UHluially anxious fur 
their safety. Though i considered the 
chance.*! more tuau desperate, 1 eot led 
the stable and examined the vacant 
stalls. My borro-ved horses were not 
there, but hanging against the walls I 
found the new set of double harness all 
complete, except Oue bridle, or head- 
stall. Outside in the street I found 
the buggy unhaimed. JSo I was only 
short a span of hoises and a trunk full bd W td 
of books and clothing which I had left 
at the hotel some weeks before. I did 
not stop long at the stable, but jas-ed 
on to where the Johnson house had 
stood on Vermont St but before reach- 
ing it I encountered a group of women 
and children standing iu the hot sun 
with a few articles saved from their 
burned dwellings piled up on the 
ground around them. Just then a gen- 
tleman and lady mounted on tine hois- 
es, rode past, and as they did so were 
greeted with yells of execration by the 
group of women. I asked the reason 



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of this, and was told that the lady h;td been riding all 
over as a guide to the outlaws, pointing out the peo 
pie lo be killed. I afterwards learned that this was a 
mistake, and that the lady had really been the means 
of saving several lives by her earnest intercession in 

Miss Sallie Young 
their behalf, or as claiming them as 
friends of her own, when in fact they 
were strangers. This young lady was 
Miss Sallie Young, of Lecompton, 
who had Come down to Lawrence on a 
visit to Gov. Shannon's family, and 
who, in taking an ear y morning ride, 
had met the Quantreil gang and had 
been detained by theiu and compelled 
to act as guide about the city. She 
was deserving of pra: sh rather than the 
execrations she received, but the cir 
cumstancts, unexplained, were all- 
againbt her, and the houseless women 
1 saw, whose houses bad been burned 
and husbands murdered, were in no 
mood to make allowtinces. They were 
wives and children of workingmen, 
and had lost their all. Some of them 
were Irish, and whenever I read of an 
evictiou 1 am reminded of that group 
of houseless women and children. 
Johnson House 
The Johnson House, a large two 
story stone building, was burnt, and 
everything belonging to it but the well 
which still remains to mark the place 
where it stood. It was one of the first 
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city, one of the two or three that have never been re- 
built. Nearly opposite this was the Methodist church 
a small wooden building, in the place of which an ele- 
gant new edifice of brick has been erected and near- 
ly tioished. Old and new escaped burning, and the old 

Church a 'Mourge' 
house was now changed into a 'morgue ^ g 
or dead house, and a ghastly array of 
dead bodies, many of them partly burnt 
and some almost reduced to a cinder, 
had been collected, while more were be- 
ing brought in every few minutes. I 
could recognize no one 1 knew in this 
sad gathering and passed en to where o 

the tents had stood, several of which % 

were still standing, while the soldier ^ 

boys who had slept in thtm the night ^ 

before were scattered thickly all >^- 

around on the prairie grass sward. =t. 

And so I wandered up and down the B 

fire-blasted streets to see the dreadful ^ 

mark of ruin on every hand. Almost 
every business house in town was in 
ashes. All had been tired, but two or 
ttiree had escapt^d, either by the lack of 
a good start or by the early coming « f 
the owners to extinguish the flames. 
There were two bninks and both were ^ p Q 
burnt after the safes had been broken 
; open and robbed. The express office, 
' which did a large business, was also 
burnt, and it was supposed that it had 
been robbed of all its valuables, includ 
ing a large amount of money, much of 
which had been sent home by soldiers 
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it proved that this money was not .st. The man in 
charge of the office, Mr. James E. ^vatson, had man- 
aged to carry the money packages away in his arms 
and hid it securely in the ravine jn^c west of Main 
street, and as soon as the circumstan,;es wan anted he 

came higging it back ;.■> the new office 
provided, and it was found that not a 
dullar was missing. Mr. Watson was 
afterwards county treasurer and was 
accused of a heavy defalcation, but I 
never could be made to believe that a 
man wiio had been tried as he was, 
and proved faithful to his trust when 
no person on earth would ever have 
suspected him of v/rong if he had 
kept the whole am<iunt of express 
funds for his own use, allowing people 
to remain in the belief that the 
outlaws had got it. I say I could never 
believe that such a man was guilty, 
and so it proved, for, though he was 
ruined by the expenses of the prosecu- 
tion, the court at last found a balance 
in his favor. The two printing offices 
were ut'etly destroyfd— not a type was 
saved. The Republican was owned by 
T. D wight Thacher, but he had left a 
Mr. Coulter in charge of it, and had 
gone to Kansas City, where he had 
purchased the Kansas City Journal, 
which he continued to publish till the 
close of the war. The Tribune was 
owned and edited by .John Speer, now 
a citizen of Finney ccunty and one of 
the board of county commissioners. 
Mr. Speer also lost wo eons on that 
fearful day— both yc ung men, grown. 





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one of whom slept in the printing oftice and was ne- 
ver t'ouiid afterwards. Neither was any tiare uf ihe 
remains to be found or that of his companiLU, David 
Puritoii, a printer, who usually slept with hiiu The 
building was somewhat large, and of wuod, 

though careful search was made, not 
even a bone or cinder could be found. 
The Eastern House, built and kept by 
Mr. Killam, formerly of Pembroke, N, 
H., where I had known him while at- 
tending the academy of that place, was 
burnt with all its contents. I should 
say, however that Mr. Killam had died 
six years previously of smallpox while' 
I was a boarder at his houee, and was 
afterwards kept by his only son, Char- 
ley till he died, leaving a youthful wid- 
ow in po.isession of the house. Her as- 
sistant, Mr. Jacob Pike, bad a narrow 
escape by concealing himself in a well 
in the rear. 

The City Ho'el, whose landlord. 
Captain Stone, had bven muroeied, as 
already related, w^.s the only hott-l 
spared. Audi think th re was but 
one store remaining, and that la gely 
robbed of its goods. 

The largest business house in the 
place was the wholesale grocery of Ri- 
denour & Baker, a two story building 
115 feet deep, closely packed with gro- 
ceries which at that time were very 
high, it being the third year of the war. 
This house was burned to the ground, 
and not less thar ^40,000 worth of 
goods with it. The junior partner. 





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Baker, was shot down and left on tb' .-jound for dead, 
but fortunately ha did not die. 1 wards night of 
that day I was passing along the street, past the 
place where the great store had bten and saw some 
peison about the rums. 1 halted to see who it could 

illDENOUR AM) BaKER 

be and found it was Mr. Ridenour him- 
self picking up the fragments and get- 
liug ready to rebuild at the earliest 
moment the heat of the smouldering 
ruins would permit. He did rebuild 
and his partner tventually recovertd, 
as they are now one of the most pros- 
perous firms in Kansas City, to which 
place they moved some dozen years 
ago — though they had for years done a 
larger business in Lawrence than any 
grocery house west of S5t Louis. I men- 
tion this incident to illustrate the spir- 
it that animated almoit every man in 
Lawrence. They did not stop to con- 
sider whether they would rebuild their 
city or not, but set to work at once 
without a moment's hesitation. The 
bridge across the river was just begun 
and would cost forty thousand dollars. 
The work on it did nut stop fur a single 
day. I saw the wajcons hauling the 
big dimension stones for the founda- 
tions and abutments through the black 
ened street, while ne . ly 200 dead lay 
unburied on each side of the track. 
Lawrence had been curnt before and 
rebuilt. It must be but again with- 
out delay! Such wae the spirit of Kan- 
sas in 18t)3. 



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All that dny I WHlked tlirough the streets of the ruin- 
ed city, and fuuncl th3 blackness of d soiaii n every- 
where except where the blackn' ss was Lloited out 
with the red stains of blooi .1 li^te.ied to the stoiies 
of the houseless victim;*, and heard many a tale of 

Rev. II. D. Fishek 

hair breadth escape?. Walking do^^ n ihe q j^ ^ 
main street bef >re noon, 1 chanced to 3* i "^ 
be present at the aieeiing of Hev. H. ct J q 
D. Fisher and Chas. Duncan. T'isher -' Q t^ 
had been p^stor of the Methodist *^ fL w_ 
church in Lawrence, bu', had accepted ^ f^ 
the post of chnplaii! in the Fifth Kan- ^ 
sas Infantiy, and been dt tailed to take • 
charge of the runaway slaves who 
were everywhere flocKing to the Union 
camps and needed some one to lake 
care of them. Mr Fi-her was an ard- 
ent hater of slavery and entered upon 
his duties with z-^al and ethciency. He 
had brought hundreds of the fugitives 
from the v\ar-strickHn borders (>f Mis- 
souri to the free soil of Kansas, and 
had fount places for them where they 
could earn their living by their labor. 
And he had quite recently biou.ht a 
load of them up from St. Louis. In 
many cases h^f had advised the negroes 
to help themselves to the abandoned 
property of their rebel masters, find 
many a go d span of mules or horses 
with W'gon attached came out loaded 
with fugitive families, their bed and 
bedding and such poor remnants of 
food and lurniture as they could get 
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this made Mr. Fisher a marked man aiong the rebels 
aad his life was not vvortli a mon -y^nt's purchase if 
they could lay hands on him. Mr. Dnucan was a lead- 
ing merchant in Lawrence, a Met! dist and an old- 
lime Democrat as he is yet. Rather =i rare combina 

tion. ]}oth had lost everything. IJoth 
had their houses bun ■ and each met in 
thy acreet, unaware t 11 that moment 
whether the other was alive or dead. 
They were smoke bep^rimed and dusty 
for it was one of the hottest and dust- 
Qj iest August days I ever saw, and they 

. ^ threw themselves into each others arras 
and embraced with tne ardor of two 
p school girls. And then each related his 
story of deadly peril and escape. Mr. 
I'Msher's was truly marvelous — almost 
S miiaculous, in fact, aod 1 am glad so 
1^ many of the people of Garden City re- 
cently heard it from his own lips, for I 
despair telling it as it was told to them 
though the impression will never be ef- 
faced. Mr. Fisher had just come home 
and Wcis in his huuse, a tive story brick, 
near the coiner of the park where the 
•^ tiends had ct.me to kill him. They had 

^ a carefu ly prepared list of the men to 

be killed, a copy of which was picked 
rd '^ S up by a son of Mr. Slillman Andrews, 
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ed the names of the best known abo- 






ff oT cfi litionists, and among others was the 
S CD ce name of Mr. Fisher (and of course, 
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\ spies in tt^wn and knew the licviS' s wi ere the cluooi - 
! ed men lived. They burnt the houses, but as a rule 
T the owners esca; ed. They came to Fishei's bouse 
Y and h-) knew ai on ;e that if se:!n he was lost. He ran 
! down cellar and hid himselt in a sp ace where the 

t cellar Rev. H. D. Fisher 

T wall had been left incomplete, and left b- ^ ^ 

<f a space between the natural surface of ^ p § 

If the ground and the Iloor. The guerril- i^ g" e^ 

T las demanded of his wife where he ^ 3- p^ 

t was, and she told them truly that he g" , q 

! lad left the house, but did not tell ^ g" 
T them he had returned. They told her ' [/: 

t she was lying, aud the brave woman o 

! told them to search for themselves. ^ 

T And search they did, high and low. At ^ 

t last they took a 1 ght and went down ' . 

I cellar. They could s-e the wh'le eel- g- 

T lar but did noc see the notch ^. 

T i I the wall, thcugh Mr. Fisher B 

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I could see Ihem plainly, looking towards ^ 

T the light, while they were looiing from ["• t"* f '"*' 
T the light out into the darkness. They 2 g 5' ^ 
^ held up the lamp and gazed earnestly, Cfq^ $^ a' '^ 
T They cuuld see the solid wall all around ^~'' o ^ 
t lh« cellar but never thought to exam- ^ ^^ p.' 
! ine it to see if it was built clear up to O ;:^.. hh 
T tiie floor. So they missed their victim cc r+^ g 
T and contented themselves with setting '-' 

\ the hou^e on fire over his head. They 
T still believed he was hid there in some 
T sly place and stood around to kill him 
i when at last he should be driven out 
T by the fire. But Mrs. Fisher was there 
I and acted like one inspired. How she 
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she ha d leave from the outlaws to save what furniture 
si e could, and in doin^j; that she managed, as if acci- 
dentally, to spill a tub of water on the floor over her 
husband's hiding place. And she concealed .him un- 
der a carpet she had tore up, and ca.ried out into the 

yard 

with him crouching under it. The carp 
et was thrown down among some tall 
weeds and there Mr. Fisher lay while 
his would be murderers stood around 
within a few feet of him, watching the 
buining house, intent on shooting him 
I the moment he appeared. They staid 
till the roof and frame work fell in 
and then left, thinking he was burned 
alive. A narrower e. cape has seldom 
been told of. Perha^ s I may as well 
add here that I was personally know- 
iijg to Mr. Fisher's c. :e of the fugitive 
"contrabands," from he fact that a 
family of seven out or the steamboat 
luad before mention d, were commit- 
ted to my charge and for years lived on 
my farm at Belvoir, where good old 
"Uncle Tom" George and his wife Liza 
are still held in pleasant remembrance. 
They are now living near Denver, 
where two of the daughters are mar- 
ried, and all, I believe are prospering. 
Another elder daughter married a 
young preacher at Lawrence, and I 
think is still living there with a grow- 
ing family, while the oldest girl of all 
was sold away f i om her parents and 
came to Kansas. I made considerable 
effort to trace her, ahd once heard of 






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her near C irondolet, Missouri, but when I went to 
And her she was not there, and as far as I know, she 
had never communicated with her pare t*, or heard 
from them since freedom came. Ma y more of tlat 
steamboat load are still living in Lawrence and vicinity 

John amd James Donnely 
and some of whom have bought farms 
and are thrifty farmers on a small 
rcale, 

I thick it was Saturday, the day 

after the raid, that I was walking in 
the south part of the city, when some- 
one on horseback hailed me, and ridiny; 
up rapidly asked me if I knew what 
had become c.f the hors'^s I diove frc>m 
Topeka. I told him I did Pot and iiev- 
er expected to know, as the guerrillas 
had taken them, of course. "O no," he 
he replied. "I took care ( f thos-e hors- 
es, you bet! You h ft them in my care 
and 1 did not forget it. When I found 
the relies had come I took t^ ose horses 
down into ihe ravme and have taken 
pood c.tre (.f them ever since." It was 
John Donnfly or his brother, James, I 
am n.t i-ertain wlich, but these horses 
were safe and were duly returned to 
the owner, Andrew Stark, of Topeka, 
then clerk of the supreme court, horse, 
buggy ard harness all complete, except 
one bridlv^, lud been found, but by that 
bridle hai gs a tale which was not dis- 
closed tdl the next winter. 1 think it 
was one morning in February that Mr. 
Stark was on the street and saw a team 
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he had his office, and he chanced to . jLice that one of 
the horses had on a bridle exactly like the one lost at 
Lawrence. It was a new bridle wht a I borrowed it, 
and like the two harnesses was trimmed with blue. 
He soon found the man who owned ihe team, and as 

soon as he began to ask about "that 
bridle,"' the man grew very uneasy, and 
was very willmg to give it up. He 
tinally explained that he took it from 
the Eldredge House stable on the morn 
ing of the Quantrell raid, not being 
Ijj -r-^ able to find his own in his haste to get 
away to save his life. He lived down 
in Johnson county, some sixty miles 
from Topeka, and had never been at 
Topeka before. It almost seemed that 
he had come on purpose, and to that 
very house in order that the owner of 
the bridle might have his own again. 

Mr, Stark cared nothing about the 

bridle, but was much interested in the 

fctory of its loss and recovery. The man 

who took it was evidently afraid of be- 

in ing charged with participating in the 

.2 raid. Mr. JStark was satistied with his 

'o story and accepted the bridle with an 

f> apology. This is a trifling incident, 

perhaps, but it completes the etory of 

^ my burrowed team — which by the way 

cS 1^ was borrowed by Wm. R, Brown, now 

42,-; . of Larned, late M. C. and still later, 

I^ lJ -^ register of the Larne'l land ofhce. His 

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was just thea beginning to blossom though planttd 
about the first of June. That cotton proved to be a 
good crop and ofa good qua lily, for I sold it in July 
1864 in Bofet)n for ^L.50 per pound, which was within 
ten cents of the highest price ever i ail I think in 
the Boston market. That proves that 
cotton Will grow iu Kansas and mature 
even when late planted, but it dues nut 
prove it can De raised profitaDly at pies 
ent prices. 

Judge Louis Carpenter 

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One of the suddest calls I made on 
that blacktst ot Blaek Fndajs was ac 
Ihe house of my young Inend, Judge 
Louis Carpeuier, v\ho had been ap- 
pointed reporter of the supreme court 
to succeed Preston B. Plumb (now sen. 
ator) who had been tiist appointed, but 
had resigned to go into the army, where 
be rose to the ri.nk of a colonel. Judge 
Carpenter was a joung lawyer of de- 
cided talent and great iadustry, and 
had but a few montt'S bt-fore married a 
very amiable and accomplibhHd young 
liidy from Emporia, with whom 1 was 
well acqua ned. He had just complet- 
ed the erection of a new brick house in 
the south part of town, and there I had 
visited him and ids bride but a lew 
wt-eks belore. Then he was in high 
hope, and as happy as a young man so 
happily situated had a right to be. 
This time I found him dead, and his 
young wife and her sister, Mis. Morse 
ot Emporia, wife of Rev. G. C. Morse 
were distractedly weeping over his 



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by stagi only t le day before on her iitsc visit to her I 
sister since her marriage-, and before sunrise the next i 
morn.i.g was d:!Stiiied co Witness one of the most bru- J 
tdl and savage butcherits ever perpetialed in a Christ- i 
ian land. The guerrillas called on J 
Judge Carpenter about sunrise and 
wanted water. He had a fine well close 
by his house and drew water for the 
men and their horses till all had enough 
' and then they coolly turned their re- 

volvers cind commenced shooting- 
VVouuded at the tirst iire, he ran into 
the house followed by the hell- 
hounds, shooting at e\vjry step, through 
several doors, while ht.s blood spurting 
from his wounds si.uned the door 
frames. Down in the cellar he fled in 
the vain hope of esc pe, followed by 
his shrieking wife an .a her sister, as 
well as the liends bent on his murder 
There he fell upon thd cellar bottom, 
aud his devoted wife and her sister 
threw themselves upon his body in the 
vain hope of shielding him from furth- 
er violence. But no. The tiends coolly 
lit ted the dresses of the shrieking ladies 
fco as to uncover his head, and dis- 1 
charged bullet nfter bullet till he was i 
dead. By some means they failed to ? 
burn the house of ihe^r victim, and it I 
still remains to remind me whenever 1 J 
pass it of the horrible tragedy. Mrs. \ 
Carpenter was almost distracted with i 
srief, and returned to her former avo- f 
cation as a teacher. But time, a great I 
soother, came to her relief, and after f 
many years of widowhood, she became i 



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the wife of Hon. John C. Rankin, of Quenemo, O- 
sage county — late county treasurer of that county and 
a suctesstui farmer and business man. Perhaps I am 
dwelling on the particulars of this greit calamity, but 
I am trying to give a true narrative of what! saw and 

heard, and this was one of 
the most shocking incidents, and botii 
he and his wife were my very dear 
friends. 

I mentioned seeing Mrs. Frazier at 
the ferry landing when Captain Stone 
lay dying, and her anxiety about the 
safety of her brother, James Pcrnue, a 
clerk in the store of Eldredgd & Furd. 
I hid but little doubt myself of his per- 
sonal safety and tried my best to as- 
sure h'-r of It, and promised to send her 
t le good news at tlie eailiest opportu 
nity. Alas! the tirst man I enquired of 
told me that Jam^ s Perrine was about 
th) tirst man murdered that morning. 
He a ;d his f ll)w clerk, James Eld- 
rcidg^, occupied a slet-ping room in the 
stare, whicii was large and aLtraciive 
and wh^ n they bruke open the store 
for plunder, tiiey n.ituraly kiiied the 
two young men. 

I also spoke of W. H Baker, of the 
firm ut ilideuoui" & Baker, as being 
left for dead. But he did not die, and 
is one of the best business men in Kan- 
sas City to day. His attempted murder 
heads another chapter of most horrible 
atrocity. He was neivly married at the 
time and was boarding at the huuse of 
Dr W. F. Gtiswold together with Hon. 
S. M. Thorpe and wife and J. F. Trass, 



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and wife, Thorpe had been a teac itr in Lawreiicr', 
th» n jJlate superiotendent of schools and was at that 
tiiu'^ Slate senator ,Dr. Griswoid was also a young man 
muTieJ. and Mr. Trask, editor of the Lawrence 
Sta e Jourual, had but few weeks befiue returned from 
Massachusetts with h blooming bride 
Dr. Griswoid had r turned only the 
tha night before fro n a visit to the 
east, and as he came up to his own 
house expressed his extreme satisfac- 
tion of finding himsel at his peaceful 
home ouce more. Alas, scarcely twelve 
^ hours were to elapse b-'fore he and his 
true friends, Baker, Trask and Thorpe 
were all called out aud shot down in 
front of his own house. 

Hon. S. M. Thorpe 
All were left for dead, and Griswoid 
and Trask were so; IJiker and Thorpe 
were desperately wounded, Thorpe 
mortally. He lingered a few days in 
hopeless agony but maintained a cheer- 
ful spirit to the last. In the senate the 
winter previous, Hon. Edward iiussell, 
to whom we in Finney county are so 
much indebted for th- construction of 
the Great Eastern Irrigation Ditch 
\)i'd been Thorpe's colhague from Don- 
iphan county, and as the senate at that 
tme was prohibited from acting on 
any measure till it had first passed the 
lower house, Thorpe and lUissell had 
amused their leisure by raising and de- 
basing a good many questions of order. 
They were warm personal friends and 
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J ed up aud instautly reoguized his seuaturial Irieud, 
T Russell, and with a soqIIh on his pale face t.> remind 
If him of the senatorial debating schoo', atid of liis 
i present desperate coadition, he called out cheerfaliy, \ 
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The previous question was sustained 
and a brave spirit was lost to Kansas. 

Three young widows were left in one 
house to mourn the loss of three young 
men, their husbands, who were among 
the most promising that had ever come 
to Kansas. Mrs. i rask has never mar- 
ried a second time, but until recently 
for many years, was the efficient li- 
Drarian of the Lawience City Library. 

Mrs. Thorpe returned to New York, 
and her son met and grteted me a year 
or two since in Lawrence, a tine, prom- 
ising >oui g man. 

Mrs. Griswo'.d, after many years of 
widowhood, was happily married to 
Hon. Geo. A. liank^, uf Lawrence. 

The burial of the victims of the raid 
was a work that could not be neglect- 
ed on account of the intensity of the 
heat, but thedigg)ngof 18u graves in 
such weather where the victims Wcre 
to be buried comprised so large a share 
of the able bodied working men of the "r^ 
place-alter alluwinsr tor the great 
number who had before enlisted for 
the war— was a question of cifficulty. 
Many of the bodies were burned past 
recognition, and others were s rangers 
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Ctmetery on the hill, where Barber, the free state 
marts r had beea buried in December, 1855, and there 
a largH nuiuber of the victims of this list outrage were 
laid side, by side. I'here they rested until years alter 
iiie cljse of the war, when they were removed to the 
new Oak Hill cemetery and a httiug 
monument erected to their memory 
which is annually bedecked with flow- 
ers. Others were buried by the side of 
their friends with due solemnity. 

I attended the funeral of Juage 
Louis Carpenter on .Saturday, August> 
22 and shall never f jrget the solemn 
scene Miis. (tROVeman 

While at that house of mouniin* ] 
heard Mrs. Grovema :, a widow, relate 
the story of her adventures with the 
outlaws who called at her house and 
were about to set it on fire. She beg- 
ged of them to spare it and ugred that 
it was hers alone; than she was a wid- 
ow with a young d lughter and that 
was her all. It was a good house and 
uas surrounded with beautiful flowers 
and shrubbery whid; her own hands 
hid planted and traiiit-d. She appeal- 
ed to the leader of the gang and asked 
him if he did not think that house was 
"too pretty to burn?" 'Yes, by G— d" 
he broke out, "It is t('> pretty to burn 
and it shan't be burnt, by G — d it 
shan't.' And he oalleed off his gang and 
left the widow in peace But it was 
not for long. In about an hour anoth- 
er squad of guerrillas came on the same 
errand. The pretty house must be 
burned and no mistake. She could have 



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a few moments to remove socoe of ter fi'rniture. But 
again she plead for her home, asonl/ a mother still 
youDg and iuteresiing can plead for the home that 
shelters her and h^r dear one. At last she &aid that one 
party had been there ou the bame errand that, morning 

The widow described the kader 
as well as she could, and as he whs 
a marked ruffian in dress and features, 
she described him so well that the sec- 
ond leader recognized him, and as soon 
as he did so, exclaimed with an air of 
astonishment: "WfU by G— dl If Bill 
Anders n agreed that your house 
should be spared. Til be damned if I 
am the man to I urn it." And he ca'!- 
ed off his men, so the house was saved. 
Another lady, Mrs. Ford, hnd a similar 
experience, as I have been told, atid her 
house and bertutiful grounds remained 
uninjured. 

Gej^eral Lane 
Gener.,1 Lane's large two story brick 
house in the wtst part of town, was 
OLe of the flrtt to be visited. Thf-y had 
h >ped 10 Hnd iiira at home, but he had 
early taken thtj a'arm and escaped into 
a corn field nut tar off. 

They setrclied the hou--e and then 
made preparations to burn it, but gave 
Mis. Lane permission to save what she 
could. There was a nice piano in the 
parlor and ?he was anxious to save it, 
so she asked some of the men to help 
lier carry it out. They took hold of 
it readily and carried ic to the door, 
and finding that it was too wide to go 





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^ through the door they left it. They !iowever assisted 
^ Mrs. Lane and her two daughters in bringing up a 
t lot ot preserves and canned t'luit fi<m the cellar and 
I pantry, and then set the house or lire. That field 
j of corn in which General Laue iuund refuge did 
^ „ ^ ^ good service in sheltering many oth- 
I ^ "S "^ ^ ''"■ ^'^'^^^'*^ Lane made his way to 
• fl o o o the other side, climbed the hill where 
I ^ M g jiil the State University now stands, and 
I ^ ,J > 3 going westward gaye the alarm and 
T o '^ ^ o began to organize a company for pur- 
I P-l o 1-5 ^^^^- Meanwhile the main body of the 

I OQ § a; ^ ^■'iiJt^rs had finished their hellish work 
T • > ':^ ^ **nd started on their retreat. They 
I o5 rt "^ knew there were foices at Kansas 

T . '"' p pj City which would be after them as 
T (jj ^ =*-• '^ soon as they got the news of their in- 
^ r;:^ ^ "3 "^ vasion, and as these would come from 
i "^ ^ A 3 the east, the raiders started directly 
T iyj ^ 3 '^ south, burning and killing as they 
J ^ -^ «2 S went. Mr. Otis Longley lived in a new 
I ^ d' g - brick house nearly a half mile west of 
T '^ ca =^ ^ their line uf march on the Clinton 
:;;J o; cfH i-H road, but a party ot the marauders 
I •'^ ^ '^ '-^ found him in the field and chased him 
T ^ Ph .^ ^ firing rapidly, till they killed him as 
I 5 ^ '^ ^ 'd he was climbing a r>nce to escape. 
J ^ (D M P^ '^ For some reason tb^y did not burn 
\ <p ^ > <1 3 his house, perhaps ]>•. cause it was of 
T 5 ^ 5i) 'g 2 hrick and not so easy to kindle, but 
I '^ ^ --^ ^ they burnt nearly or quite every other 
I S '"^ 00 .^ CM house on taeir route or at least sev- 



§ ^ o3 n:5 en or eight mites out, and the smoke 

Pi •'-' t' i of the burning buildi gs guided Maj. 

t ^ h ^ ^ rrt ^''""^b and his batalufu of the Ilth. 

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t wards appeared that the pursuit had been delayed I 

t for several hoars i i co isequ^uce of Gen. Ewiiig's ab- k 

sencefrom his headquarters at KansasLity when the I 

messenger arrived there with the news that Quantrell J 

with a large force had crossed over into Kansas and were J 

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Major Plumb's Pursuit 

apparently headed for Lawrence. Gen. 

Ewing had gone up to his home in ^ 

'.', L*»aven worth and could only be reach- R q { 

J ed by telegraph; the telegraph oper- SB- * 

t ator was not at the office which oc ^ "^ J 

Tf casioned more delay. But as soon as ©^ J^ I 

word coiild be got to him, orders g: ^ t 

were sent back to Maj. Plumb, who <d 2. i 

was th'^n his adju ant, to march in- P ■^ i 

stantly to intercept the raiders, if pos- R f> ,j | 

sible. Again there was difficulty. The O ^ ^ 

only force available was the llth, Kan «!< • ^ 

sas, and that regiment had just been o q^ >^ 

changed from an infantry to a cavalry «r^ S o 

or mounted regiment. The order for ^ "^ B 

the change had just been received, <) S' S 

but the men had never been mounted o| £ 

I or even seen their horses. The horses 5 p^ '^ 

! were all green, and grass-fed, and k ^ 

T when mounted by soldiers who had ^ S 

• never served on horseback, both the "^ § 

I horses and men were in an awkward ^ ^ \ 

t fix. The morning was hot, as I have p^* ^ t 

I before stated, and the green, unbroken S \ 

1 grass fed horses soon showed how lit- "^ o" { 

2 tie they could be relied upon for a ^ Pj I 
1 rapid march. The men, unaccustom- ^ &i f 
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each ether, andMaj. Plumb, realizing the situation, as r 

straog^era could not, wisely decliaea to rush on an I 

equal number of desperadoes, well mounted, accus- i 

tomed to the saddle, doubly aimtd and desperate. I 

Maj. Plumb's management of the pursuit was severely f 

criticised at the i 

M c3 time by those who did not understand } 

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^ •'-' the facts, but who felt that poetic * 

g ^ justice required that the guerrilla I 

g "^ torce should have been wiped out and t 

*g Xi annihilated, I had h long conversa- I 

■^ r^ tiou in relation to the matter with i 

o r^ Gen. Ewingamouth or two after the ^ 

'S c« raid, in wbich he staled the facts ful- I 

yj r5 ly and warmly defended the conduct t 

g '^ of Major Plumb. The opposite course \ 

.2 a5 he declared would have led to the 

•^ ^ slaughter of Plum on force, and en 

o abled Quantrell to I ave returned to 

j-t CD his haunts in Misso ti with a grand 

^ u addition to his bloody laurels. 1 had 

-t^ Xi known Piumb intiu'.tely for several 

"o =« - ' J ears before he entered the service and 

>i § knew tnat for resolul and undaunted 

'^ ^ S courage he had no iperiors and but 

g *o ^ few equals 

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Plumb commanded the pursuing force, 
1 knew thrtt he would do all that he 
possibly could with the outlaws, and 



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for;ein north Mhs )iiri were WA into a'Tobusi and 

nt arly ev'-ry ma'i ^lau^hterecl, wliile the lel el outlaws 

who lia I just ihken some two hundred Stk soMiers 

from the cars in which ihry were r« turning honoe 

on turJoiigh, shot Ihem down in cold b'ojd, audni irch- 

ed off iu triumph. This was iinder 

the lead of o.ie uf the samn Anderaons 

who figured at Lawrence, and Sj>}ired 

Mrs. Grovdnor's h)ust^. I have liereto- 

fore explained v\ho the Andersons 

were in connection with Judge Arthur 

I. Baker and his murder near Council 

Grove, No more lleudish men infected 

the border than Jim and Bill Amier- 

son, both of v\h>rnwere killed before 

the war was over. 

With two more incidents 1 w 11 con- 
clude this somew! at extei-ded sketcii 
of the Quaiitreil raid. Not th it 1 have 
told all ti»e lacts iii relation to it, but 
I have told ijearly all of which 1 was 
personally cognizint. 

Love and Romance 

I Like death, love and romance have 

all seasons for their own, and the two 

\ incidents I am about to relate have a 

■ touch of both. Tlie first I shall men- 
! lion was the case of a young girl, an 
I orphan, 1 think, whose name I have 
' forgotten, who was living with the 
', family of a (German who kept a saloon 
I on the main street and lived in the 

■ rear of the same buildini^' with his fam 
! ily. He was seen and f-hot when the 
I guerrillas made their first charge 
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of her empl yi r and liad the presence of nind to 
rush behind thti bar and save the coiiteats of the mon- 
ey drawer for the family. She was ihen ordered by 
the riJlli.iis to hand down some of the bottles of 

liquor, to which they helped them- 
8c.ves freely. Her youth and helpless- 
ness, aided perhaps by good looks and 
a ready compliance with their de- 
mands for liquor, made a favorable 
impression, and just at this moment 
others of the raiders were in the act 
of shooting a young man they hnd 
taken prisoner just before the saloon 
door. 

Without giving herself a moment 
for reflection, she rushed out from be. 
hind the bar and into the street to 
throw her arms arouiid the neck of the 
young man, all the iime calling him 
her brother and appealing to his cap- 
tors to spare his life. She declared he 
was her only brother and plead so 
earnestly for his life hat their savage 
hearts relented, and he was spared. 
In fact, he was an entire stranger to 
the girl and owed his life to the quick 
witted inspiration of the girl in call- 
ing him her brother. The story would 
hardly be a good one had it not result 
ed as it did in a speedy marriage and 
a happy life for both. 1 had the facts 
of this incident from Mrs. Gould, sis- 
ter of the young man, whose name 
was llazletine. 



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The second incident was that of a yoving man who 

had been employrd in D iLee's phouigraph gallery, 

who tinding himself ia d ing3r t )jk refuge uuder a 

corn ciib slandmg up a foot ur tv\o from tiie ground; 

theie he lay snug and safe a fdvv moments, when a 

young lady, daughtu' of Captain Bell, 

the county clerk who had been killed 

took refuge under the same corn crib, 

and then and there began an acqiuiint- 

ance ending in mairiage. 
The pleasant home of the young 

couple thus broujiht together may be 

seen about a mde south of the post 

office, and one or two beautiful < h id- 

ren with their presence, add io the 

charm of its abundant fruits and 

flowers. And here I will close my nar" 

rative of one of the most unprovoked 

and cold blooded massacres that occur 

red during the war, by which 186 un- 
armed and defenceless men lost their 
lives. 

I will only add that of the soldiers I 
have spoken of as being on the north 
side of the Kaw River, and using 
their rifles to good purpose by shoot- 
ing one or more of the raiders across 
the river, were a detachment of the 
Twelfth Kansas, and were commanded 
by Captain Ellis, who was alter v\ard 
killed in the service, and for whom 
Ellis county was named. 

End of Judge Bailey's Story 



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1st. Lieut. T. J. Hadley of Co. ]. 5th. Kan. Cav., 
Olat ha, Kan., in National Tribune, .April 26, 1888, un- 
der title of "Quantreil'j K lid' the murderous guer- 
rilla's descent on Lawrence, Kinsis, gives a column 
contradictory to Horace Greeley' sassertion in Vol. 2 
page 450, which says: "No preparation 
for defense existed, for no danger was 
ever dreamed of.'' 

Wdile it is true that no preparation 
for defense had been made for some 
weeks before the raid, it is not true 
that "no danger of an attack was ever 
dreamed of." All Uirough the fore 
part of the summer of 1863 the peo- 
ple of Lawrence w re very uneasy 
over the reports of cmtemplated raids 
from the bushwhackers of western 
o Missouri under Quantrell. It was this 
S feverish condition of excitement of 
^ ^ the citizens of Lawveoce that caused 
g p. ^ the mayor of the city to make repeat- 
g .2 § ed requisitions on the military author 
A H '^ ities at Leavenworth for troops to de- 
^ S ^ fend the place. 

3 At this time all the available troops 

eg ^ g on the border were engaged in active 
^ '^ ^ service in Missouri and I was muster 
r-r" ^ (^ ed into the service with a detach- 
^ "£ . ment of Co. L, 5th. K ansas Cav. and 
^ «S P^ in a very few days after, I was sent 
^ 0) O to Lawrence with 25 enlisted men of 
^ +^ my company to guard the city and 
>i .S ^id in restoring coclidence to its in- 
habitants. Arriving at Lawrence the 
same day we went 11. to camp on Mt. 
Oread, where we had an excellent 
vi«w of the city and surrounding 
coutjtry. 



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Along with tliis is issued a pamphlet entitled 
"Border Ruffian Troubles in Kansas", Two 
thirds of it is Judge L. D^ Bailey's writings 
in 1887, on the "Early Days in Kansas". 
20 pages of it made this pamphlet of 50 pps 
Lieut. Hadley's account of the 2>art that he 
played in those days is given in full, see page 
51 of this pamphlet for an extract. Several 
interesting acc'ts of the Raid are either giv- 
en in full or reviewed. Several chapters 
'Along the Santa Fe Trail", are given. 
Tie ' Massecreof the Ma 'tis des Cygnes" has 
two acc,ts given Abel Yate's story of Earl y 
Days occupies 2 or 3 chapters and the reader 
will find the 100 Octavo pages closely print- 
ed equal to many of the 300 page books in 
matter; only 100 copies are printed of it in 
pamphlet form, price 50 & 75 cents. 

C. R. Green Lvndon Kans 



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